Saving Time
Any advice I’ve ever been given that’s actually resonated has boiled down to a variation on the same basic theme: Life is short. Stop wasting it. It comes packaged in…
How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post somewhat buries its lede by starting first with nation-level biodiversity initiatives, particularly to protect rainforests. It then presents a list of four big bad actors in…
Biden Warms Up for a Media Roast on Saturday
President Biden has been sharpening his jokes as of late, mostly to target his opponent, former President Donald J. Trump. On Saturday, he is expected to extend the roast to…
‘Decisions Under Fire’: Campuses Try a Mix of Tactics as Protests Grow
Wearing riot helmets and carrying zip ties, Boston police officers moved in one day this week and surrounded a group of pro-Palestinian protesters on a grassy patch of Northeastern University’s…
Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This
It was Super Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago, and the people — his people — were feeling good. They had arrived around sundown, disgorged from a small fleet of buses and ushered…
Yair Lapid Says the World Misunderstands Israel
This is the debut of The Interview, The New York Times’s new weekly series, featuring in-depth conversations with fascinating people. Each week, David Marchese or Lulu Garcia-Navarro will speak with…
Anne Hathaway Is Done Trying to Please
This is the debut of The Interview, The New York Times’s new weekly series, featuring in-depth conversations with fascinating people. Each week, David Marchese or Lulu Garcia-Navarro will speak with…
A Match Made in MAGA: How a Friendship Helped J.D. Vance Land on Trump’s V.P. List
It was just 43 days before the 2022 Republican primary in Ohio, and former President Donald J. Trump had yet to throw his weight behind a Senate candidate. J.D. Vance,…
Echoing Their Client, Trump’s Lawyers Pursue an Absolutist Defense
Donald J. Trump is a thrice-married man accused of covering up a sex scandal with a porn star after the world heard him brag about grabbing women by their genitals.…
G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue
The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in…